J.C. Deacon Class: Senior Hometown: Unionville, Ont. High School: St. Stephens HS Height / Weight: 6-1 / 170 Birthdate: 11/17/1982 Experience: 3L

The following bio is entering the 2004-05 season... UNLV: A seasoned veteran with 83 competitive rounds to his credit ... one of three returning seniors for the Rebels ... has a 74.61 career scoring average with five top-10 finishes and 23 rounds of par or better golf. 2003-04: Played in 20 rounds and seven tournaments ... recorded his best finish with a tie for 25th at the Jerry Pate National Intercollegiate ... broke into the 60's twice with a first-round 66 and a second-round 69 at the Jerry Pate ... recorded a scoring average of 74.40, which was third on the team ... a member of the Academic All-MWC team. 2002-03: A mainstay in the lineup, playing in all but one tournament ... posted three top-10 finishes, including claiming second place at the Turtle Bay Intercollegiate ... shot a then-career-best 67 at the Carpet Capital Collegiate, which powered him to a 16th-place finish. 2001-02: Played in 30 rounds and 10 tournaments, including the team's last seven ... shot a 222 at the Tucker Intercollegiate to finish tied for 29th in his debut ... tied for ninth at the rain-shortened Kepler Intercollegiate just two weeks before carding a runner-up finish at the Mountain West Conference Championship ... fired a then-career low 70 in the final round of the Morris Williams Intercollegiate in Austin, Texas, but bested that round with a 69 at the NCAA West Regional ... winner of the Maze award, which is presented annually to the Rebel golfer who best exemplifiesthe spirit of Rebel Golf. HIGH SCHOOL: A 2000 honors graduate of St. Stephens High School in Bradenton, Fla. ... attended school there for one year while studying at the David Leadbetter Golf Academy, which also produced former Rebel Calvin Kupeyan ... collected three wins and finished as the district runner-up as a senior ... attended Holy Trinity School in Richmond Hill, Ont., for three years ... a four-time provincial champ, with victories at the Bantum and Juvenile levels and two as a Junior, who is still the only golfer in the history of Ontario to win all three ... was named his school's MVP in every season ... carded a tournament-record 65 in the first round at the 1999 U.S. Junior Championship in York, Pa. ... played on the Canadian Junior National team that played in the World Junior Championship in Tokyo, Japan ... lettered four times in hockey and soccer. PERSONAL: J.C. Deacon was born Nov. 17, 1982, in Toronto, Ont., Canada ... the son of Jennifer and Campbell Deacon ... has one brother, Jeff (25) and one sister, Gillian (17) ... majoring in communications. KNIGHT ON DEACON: "J.C. Deacon has had a lot of experience for us. He is a person we are looking to to be a consistent starter. Hopefully he will be able to reach his potential in his senior year for us. He is one of our three returning seniors and they are the core of the team and will graduate and their experience obviously should help us as a group and push us to another level. They have all played a lot for us over the years and J.C. is certainly a part of that."